124: Blogofractal

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
Revision as of 16:56, 20 June 2013 by LadyMondegreen (talk | contribs) (Transcript: linking parts of the transcript)
Jump to: navigation, search
Blogofractal
Edward Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sciences or graphic design.
Title text: Edward Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sciences or graphic design.

Explanation

Ambox notice.png This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect:
Please include the reason why this explanation is incomplete, like this: {{incomplete|reason}}

If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks.

The Blogosphere is a blanket term for all the blogs on the internet, that link together and share information to the extent that the term "blogosphere" arose to describe the collective of blogs. This comic proposes a new structure for defining all blogs by: a fractal of blogs.

Edward Tufte is a statistician who worked on data visualization and wrote books on the subject, including "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information", as mentioned in the title text.

Transcript

From the makers of the Blogosphere, Blogocube, and Blogodrome comes
the Blogofractal
[A large rectangle subdivided into rectangles in a fractal pattern, most with a phrase or word inside.]
[Mostly left to right from top-left corner.]
TripMaster Monkey says
118th Post!!
Wikiconstitution!
OMG
DeCSS
Casemod your Boyfriend!!
FLICKR
They're saying on Kos that
http:
slashdot.org
articl
tagCloud
Cory Doctorow is a little upset about copyright law.
Hey guys what if Google is evil?!?
I'll sleep with you for a FreeIpods deal.
FirstPsot!!
Snakes on an I don't Even Care Anymore
KiwiWiki
CSS
Comments (0)
Blogotesseract
¡play games!
[RSS icon.]
is AYB retro yet?
Google Google Google Apple Google Goog
Cheney totally shot a dude!!!
Watch this toddler get owned by a squirrel!!!
Developers
Developers
Developers
Developers
I installed a Mac Mini inside ANOTHER Mac Mini!
Check out this vid of Jon Stewart
9-11 <-> Trent Lott!
Web 7.1
Kryptonite™ locks vulnerable to "keys!"
Interesting post! Check out my blog, it has useful info on CARBON MONOXIDE LITIGATION
FIREFLY!!
HELP ME
Engadget
Boing Boing
Gizmodo
MAKE Blog: DIY baby
My friend has a band!!
Jon released an exploit in the protocol for meeting girls.
Internets!
Howard Dean?
So I hear there's a hurricane.
We should elect this dude!
Google Maps is da best!!
Moderation: +1 Sassy
RSS!
A-list
<3
Trackable URL?
I shot a man in Reno check it out on YouTube!
HEY LOOK ROBOTS!
Net Neutrality!
Friends Only.
Dupe!
AJAX?
COMPLY
Cowboy Neal
Blogodrome
Hey look I got Linux running on my tonsils!
Look alive, blogonauts!
Cafepress cockrings
BOOBIES!!
MIA
A Beowulf Cluster... of BLOGS!!
SPOILER ALERT
Dupe!
You have been eaten by a Grue.
Ruby on a monorail
Lesbians!
DNF Released!
Steampunk
BLAG
PONIES!
Xeni found some porn!
IRONY
LIARS!
Linux on Rails!
Blogocube
del.icio.us!
404
o.O
Don't slam the source when you close it.


comment.png add a comment! ⋅ comment.png add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ Icons-mini-action refresh blue.gif refresh comments!

Discussion

Strange - this explanation seems significantly less complete than 24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey and not significantly less complex - anyone care to weight in on that thought? -- Brettpeirce (talk) 13:31, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Davidy22 picks the daily incomplete explanation randomly from the list of incomplete explanations. So, each page has a fair chance of getting picked, but they don't necessarily have a rating of "needs most help" to "doesn't need much help" that is used to pick. Feel free to work on other explanations. The banner is just to help new users who want to jump in and get their hands dirty but don't know where to start. lcarsos_a (talk) 19:29, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Ponies is *not* a reference to My Little Pony (or at least, it cannot be one to the "Friendship is Magic" incarnation.) This comic is from 2006. FIM didn't debut until 2010. Either Randall has a time machine (a possibility one cannot, of course, completely exclude), or the reference is to something earlier. 199.27.133.122 23:44, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Makes me wonder what state MLP was in at that time. G3? G3.5 (also known as the Hell Babies edition)? --103.22.201.132 06:55, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Ponies may be a reference to the OMG Ponies! theme that attacked slashdot for April Fools Day back in that timeframe (my eyes still burn when I think about it).Seebert (talk) 21:52, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Why does he misspell "blagosphere"? What's this "blog" stuff? 108.162.218.118 05:08, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Since "web 2.0" is the current thing, "web 7.1" could also be a reference to the different surround sound configurations 2.0 and 5.1 and 7.1. 141.101.80.75 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Could CSS be Counter Strike? Source, specifically. It’s the only thing I’ve ever heard of as CSS. Netherin5 (talk) 16:03, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

And not one Blagojevich reference, even though that would've been contemporaneous to the comic. Blah. — Kazvorpal (talk) 01:41, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Does anyone know when Dandified Yum (DNF), the open source package manager for Fedora started development? If it was before this comic was released, then it is possible it could be referring to that. 162.158.62.157 12:23, 3 May 2021 (UTC)